NEW ZEALAND: GENERAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 31, 31 July 1902, Page 19

NEW ZEALAND: GENERAL.

A private homa for inebriates is being established in Welling, ton. Me Palmer, of Sydney, has been appointed town oletk of Wellington, at a salary of £800 per annum. Saturday, August 9, haa been definitely fixed by the Government aa the day on which the Coronation holiday is to be observed. The troop ship Orient, with 1200 officers and men returning from South Africa, will make Port Chalmers her first port of call. The Orient ia dne here about August 5. At a meeting of the Wellington committee of subscribers to the Veterans' Home on Monday, it was announced that £859 had been collected in the city. It is anticipated that £2000 will be colleoted in the Wellington centre. On Monday afternoon a fishing boat containing William Clout, his BOn William, and another man named Thorn is Lacy, all residents of Island Bay, capsized during a squall off Sinclair Head, Wellington, All three were drowned. The occurrence was witnessed by a party of fishermen. The Education Department has been requested to formulate a scheme in connection with the three scholarships for New Zealand which are to be founded by the executors of the will of the late Cecil Rhodes. Bach scholarship will be tenable at Oxford for three yean, and will be worth £300 per annum. The Irishmen of Blenheim have sent the treasurer of the Irish Federation, Wellington, the sum of £17 10s 6d, with a promise of more to follow, in support of the Irish Parliamentary Fund, and in appreciation of the ' persistent efforts of the Nationalist leaders in the attempt they are making to settle the people on the land.' The resolutions passed at the emergency meeting of the Wellington Harbor Board on the 16th inst., to raise a quarter of a million for dock construction, have been confirmed. The board resolved to draft a by-law imposing a harbor improvement rate, to be paid by vessels on all inward goods and transhipments discharged. The rate was fixed at 3d per ton for general goods and a proportionate amount on sundries. At the Bisley Meeting the Kolapore Cup was won by the Australian team, with a score of 770, which is a record. The other scores were : Rhodesia, 758 ; Canada, 757 ; the Motherland, 755 ; Guernsey, 748 ; Natal, 746 ; New Zealand, 744 ; India, 708 ; and the West Indies, 602. The New Zealand team won the Belgian Cup and £20. The score was 101 points. Under date June 21 our London correspondent writes as follows : — Amongst those present at the Imperial Institute on Monday night, June 10. at the reception given by the Agent-General, Mr W. Pember Reeveß and Mrs Reeves, to meet the Right Hon. R. J. Seddon, Premier of New Zealand and Mrs Seddon were noticed the Very Rev. Dr Watter°. SM., Mrs Holworthy flate Lady Backley), Sir Westby Perceval, Mr John Blundell, and a host of others. Dr. Evans, who is in charge of the Chemical Department of Canterbury College, has written to the Board of Governors explaining why he has s^nt orders for apparatus to Germany instead of England. He makes a strong c.ibc out a^aintt English manufacturers, who, he says, are unr< Table and slow, while the English article is inferior to the German. He also wijs it is much cheaper to get apparatus from Germany, eppecially wheu large numbers of email articles are ordered. The A«hburton Catholic Literary Society held its usual weekly meeting on Wednesday evening, Mr W. Soal presiding. One member was proposed for mtmbersbip, and after thp ordinary business was got through, the programme for the evening was proceeded witb. This was a pjinech competition, a handsome large album being given by one of the members for thp best ppeech on the 'AdvantHges and Disadvantages of Working Men's Cluba and kindred Clubs.' The competition was good, 17 members competed, and Mr H. McSherry, who had evidently well considered the subject, though hard pushed by some other member-*, showed clearly that it wa9 natural for human beings to club for social and mutual intercourse from the very earliest days. Village.", towns, and emeu grew out of this. After a keen debate, Mr MuSherry's view was endorsed by a good majority. The offices of several of our Catholic exchanges were visited by the Rev. Father Cleary during his btay in the United States, and all of our contemporaries exprePß their appreciation of his work as editor of the N.Z, Tablet. The Bulletin, of thu International Catholic Truth Sosiety, in its issue for June had the foilowii.g : — •Rev, Henry W. Cleary, the distinguished editor of the N.Z. Tablet, vißited New York during the past month. During his brief stay he met many old friends among the clergy and laity, who were, no doubt, pleasantly aiuazid at this sudden apparition of an old acquaints cc from the outer run of the world. Father Cleary visited the general headquarters of the International Catholic Truth Society in Brooklyn, and fxpreaatd hi'nutlf as much pleaHed at th« work accomphnhed. lie waa especially inienst<d in the Society's successful work in unmasking unpoatets of the Shepherd and Slattery type, and promised Lia active co-operation in further work of this kind. Father Cleary's able conduct of the NZ, J ABLET has given him a wide reputation among journalists, Hiu paper is known

as one of the representative Catholic organs of the world. He has been successful in running to earth several notable inipoeters who were plying a lucrative trs-de in New Zealand.' A largk number of promotions and trinsfers have bpen arran^d to tak- effect immediately in the Po-<t and T.-le-zraph Department. The chief postmaster at Blenheim (Mr J.hn Bull) retires on a pension, and will be btico eded by Mr vorthcroft, at present postmaster at Tauranga. Mr Hdlliday is to be promoted from Balclutha td the poscmanterhh.p at Faii^nga, and Mr White (postmaster at Bulls, Rangitikei) goes to Baiclutha. Mr Ashton, senior clerk and operator at Rotorua, is to be promoted to Bulls, and the senior clerk at Masterton (Mr Turner) h to be transferred to RoLorua, Mr H. H. Cork is ti be transferred from Oamarn to Masterton. Mr M'Hutcheson, chief clerk at the G.P.0., Christchurch, replaces Mr Stevens at the Thames, Mr Stevens having been promoted to Nelson. Mr J ,T. Greene, who has been temporarily attached to the C.P.0., Wellington, becomes postmaster at Port Nelson. Mr A. D C. Clemett, now stationed at Mongonui, becomeß postmaster at Koxton, replacing Mr MaoDermott, transferred to Waimate, South Canterbury. Mr P. P. White, postmaster at Temuka, is transferred to Marton. Mr G. G. Woon, senior mail clerk at Wanganui, becomes chief clerk at Nelson ; whilst Mr. C. A. Seymour, senior operator at Neldon, takes charge of the telegraph branch. A list of the winning numbers in the art union in aid of th c Dominican Convent, Dougarra, Wegt Australia, is published in thi issue. The Goldjiilds' Chronicle has the following- report of th c drawing : — ' A gathering of ladies and gentlemen took place at the Domiuican College, Dongarra, on the afternom of the 13th June, the occasion being the drawing of the prizes in connection with the grand art union promoted in aid of the Dominican schools in Western Australia. After the prizes, which were arranged in the large study hall, had been inspected and much admired, the drawing took place. At the request of the Mother Prioress a committee of gentlemen was formed to conduct the proceedings. Two small children, a boy and a girl, drew respectively from two bags a ticket block and card marked with the numb rof the prize. Dr. Bartlett, J.P., jotted them down, then announced the number of the winning ticket and the number of the prize won, Great interest was taken in the drawing, and at the conclusion Dr. Bartlett congratulated the Molher Prioress on the well-,trranged pioc eding^. everything going off so smoothly without a hitch. Tho prizes are, it is understood, well distributed throughout the various district?, and universal satisfaction was expressed at the value and beauty of them.'